Seized: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy as a Medical, Historical, and Artistic Phenomenon - Softcover

LaPlante, Eve

 
9780595094318: Seized: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy as a Medical, Historical, and Artistic Phenomenon

Synopsis

"Fascinating account of medical research...LaPlante shows how a brain scar may cause bizarre aggressive or sexual behavior-and works of profound creative imagination."

-Howard Gardner

"Readers intrigued by Oliver Sacks' Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat will welcome LaPlante's book...Thoughtful...Highly recommended."

-Library Journal

"LaPlante's descriptions of the human brain are wonderfully concrete, and her empathy for epilepsy's victims is clear."

-Kirkus Review

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About the Author

Eve LaPlante has degrees from Princeton and Harvard. She has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Ladies' Home Journal, Working Woman, Parents, Country Living, and many other publications. She is also the author of American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman who defied the Puritans (Harper, 2004).

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